Tim Wakefield Announces Retirement

Of course it’s Posnanski so you have to read the whole thing, if only for the long digression about Charlie Hough and passed balls. But here’s a taste:

Joe worries that Tim Wakefield was the last of the great knuckleball pitchers; the last of the knuckleballers who last forever and win a couple of hundred games. I don’t think he’s the last. But I fear he’s the last we’re going to see for a long, long while.

In 2005 Tim Wakefield—or “Ol’ Knuckly,” as he likes to called—provided harmony vocals on this Cindy Bullens song (whose lyrics reference the death of Ted Williams).

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I’m not going to miss him as much as I miss Terra, my last dog. I’m not going to miss him as much as I miss my grandfather, who was here forever and then suddenly wasn’t.

I am going to miss him, though.